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The recent history of recreational drug use can be read in the lyric sheets and sonic signatures of popular music. Thus far in the 21st century a healthier approach to the language of neurological physiology, mood disorders, and pharmaceutical remedies have resulted in artists such as Of Montreal, Panda Bear, and Cloud Cult facing these issues directly and unflinchingly, dissonantly placing reflections on brain function and anti-depressants into catchy, infectious pop.

In our fourth annual Found Sound, Pitchfork writers select their favorite offbeat and/or underappreciated non-2004 discoveries of 2004-- everything from proto-freakfolk to Turkish pop to a German shepherd named Sebastian.